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Logistics Nightmare. The locale for the exercise, aptly named "Acid Test," was south of the Tanana River near Fairbanks, in one of Alaska's coldest spots, where - 80° F. has been registered. With temperatures of 60 below at some locations, the war games strained men and machines to new limits as officers tested new doctrines for winter warfare...
...Acid Test's deep freeze was a special nightmare for supply officers. Gasoline, for transport and collapsible Yukon stoves, had first priority, far ahead of ammunition. Next came rations: each infantryman must tuck in a formidable 5,000 calories of food a day to replace heat lost by his body. Water was another life-or-death commodity. Ski troopers in the desertlike dry cold require between three and five quarts of water daily. While equipment designers have achieved some success in producing insulated canteens and tanks to transport water into the field, the delay caused by a flat tire...
...everyone, it seems, has something to protest. Last week it was the magicians. A score showed up for a demonstration in front of Rome's crowded Chamber of Deputies building, having abundantly proved their powers by finding parking space nearby (180 others scheduled to attend failed that elementary test). The petition they presented to Premier Mariano Rumor requested that one thing which magicians admittedly cannot grant themselves: professional status and the government-paid pensions that it brings...
Elated by the results, NASA has ordered the construction of a flight-test version of Whitcomb's wing. At Edwards Air Force Base in California, the wing will be mounted on a modified F-8 jet-fighter and will undergo test flights in the summer of 1970. If the performance measured in Langley's wind tunnel is duplicated in flight, a new generation of more efficient subsonic jets may soon be cruising major U.S. air routes at speeds as high as 645 m.p.h...
...thin system--defense against China--is highly contestable. China now possesses no intercontinental missiles capable of attacking the United States. Yet the military proposes to build a system that Jerome Wiesner, John Kennedy's Science Advisor, believes would be almost immediately obsolete, and which can never be realistically tested because of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. ABM proponents further assume that China might use her first long-range missiles even before developing simple decoy devices, already known to the American military, that can render Sentinels almost useless. As a response China could only expect obliteration of her own people...